View ODF document on iOS and Android Device

[yindali]

IBM releases Lotus Symphony Viewer for iOS and Android. It can view .odp, .odt, .ods files on iOS phone and tablet from both local device, email attachment or web link. It is a generic viewer which can associate your ODF file created from Symphony or OpenOffice and lunch from file explorer directly rather than start the application first. You can also directly connect to projector and give your presentation here.

Here are download links:
(iOS) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibm-lotu ... ?mt=8&ls=1
(Android) https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... sult&hl=en

[JohnnyWalker]

Cool. But a quick question, I have an iPad, how can I sync odf files to the Symphony viewer?

[yindali]

Connect to you iTunes. Select your iPad on the left pane, then select "Application". In the "Sync" section, select "Symphony". Scroll down the page, Note the "File sharing", select the "Symphony" on the left section, then drag files in to the listbox.

[JohnnyWalker]

Thanks. I sync files to my iPad according to your instruction. Now I can view my ODF files!

[shradhey]

Hi guys this app (IBM Lotus Symphony) is allowing me to see the power points but the were in wrong orientation and I was missing some of the content on the slides. As you can’t zoom in or out the only way is to swipe the slides but that takes you to next one.

I couldn’t find a way to change the settings of the IBM App so I gave up and spent half an hour trying to find a more suitable app. There are aplenty of them (at least 10) which will do the job but they cost from $5 to $15 Australian. There were a couple for 1.99 but I didn’t trust them by the looks (didn’t try).

Finally I found OOReader. Its for IPAD and works a treat. The slides takes a minute to load on the app but once there they work like magic (Just to read – no editing allowed). The orientation of the slides changes with movement of IPAD. so thats great. There is a free version with adds. They ask 2 Dollars and something cents for an ad free update. The ads are at the bottom and not super annoying so I will continue using this occasionally to read my files on train. Just wanted to share this (and save half an hour of their time) with some one searching for the same like me. Search of ooreader (not zero but alphabet ‘o’) I found it by searching Libre Office.

All the best.

[jayxtee]

iOS app store told me that Lotus Symphony was not available in the US. OOReader seems to do the job nicely and hooks into DropBox.